File consists of 109 black and white and colour photograph prints, 23.5 x 17 cm or smaller. File documents various unidentified family members and friends, travels and outings, special events (e.g. weddings, graduations), holidays (e.g. Easter), official portraits (including a National Film Board o…
109 photographs : b&w and col. ; 23.5 x 17 cm or smaller
Scope & Content
File consists of 109 black and white and colour photograph prints, 23.5 x 17 cm or smaller. File documents various unidentified family members and friends, travels and outings, special events (e.g. weddings, graduations), holidays (e.g. Easter), official portraits (including a National Film Board of Canada portrait of James Wardle), and sports and leisure (e.g. canoeing, golf). File also includes photographs of Carl Rungius (on his birthday in 1954), Betty Ormond in Peru (with a message addressed to "Dorrie" written on the back of the print), graduation photograph of James Wardle from Queen's (c.1912), and travel photographs from the United States in 1948 (New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City) and Amsterdam, Netherlands (1952). Notable places the photographs depict include Banff (including Banff Train Station), the Great Divide, St. Lawrence River (the Wardle family had a cottage here), Sunshine trail, Mt. Athabasca, Columbia Icefields, Lake O'Hara, Montreal, Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Paris (France), Ghost River, Ottawa, Peru, Lake Minnewanka, Elk Island, and Maligne Lake.
Notes
Most (but not all) photographs are annotated on the back identifying who is in the photograph, when it was taken, and where.
File consists of ca. 405 photographs used in books "Nicholas Morant's Canada" and "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" by John Garden, and 23 textual items. Photographs include ca.123 prints (13 oversize), ca.125 transparencies, and ca.156 negatives. Content pertains to Rocky Mountain scenics, vari…
ca. 405 Photographs: prints, transparencies, negatives; b&w and colour
Scope & Content
File consists of ca. 405 photographs used in books "Nicholas Morant's Canada" and "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" by John Garden, and 23 textual items. Photographs include ca.123 prints (13 oversize), ca.125 transparencies, and ca.156 negatives. Content pertains to Rocky Mountain scenics, various hotel interior and exterior views, scenes from Peru, and other miscellaneous content relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway company.
Textual materials include personal correspondence collected by Willie Morant, handwritten notes by Nicholas Morant, and one newspaper clipping (annotated).
Notes
Contains some duplicates.
Negative photos to be re-housed in negative envelopes before moving to downstairs vault
Broad range of views used in Morant slide shows. Includes a number of Morant's signature views
File consists of thirteen titled sections: * General intro: views of the Empress Hotel (Victoria BC), oil, trucking, air travel, railway, ferry, Chateau Frontenac, totem pole. 11 items * Bread winners: cl…
Broad range of views used in Morant slide shows. Includes a number of Morant's signature views
File consists of thirteen titled sections:
* General intro: views of the Empress Hotel (Victoria BC), oil, trucking, air travel, railway, ferry, Chateau Frontenac, totem pole. 11 items
* Bread winners: classic Morant views: train at "Morant's curve" (Bow River in the Bow Valley); fishing scene with models and Mountie at Vermilion Lakes near Banff; Willie Morant, rider and packhorse in mountains; couple under beach umbrella at Canadian Pacific's Algonquin Hotel, New Brunswick. 4 items
* People: artists Carl Rungius and Charlie Beil at work; Nick Morant with bird on this head and with cow; artists at work with stained glass, totem poles and pottery; people in Peru; other. 25 items
* Ruination: downed trees, squirrel. 2 items
* Pix uses: Nova Scotia, including Church Point. 7 items
* Skiers: skiers and models at Sunshine ski area and Mount Assiniboine. Also: packtrain, men removing snow from roof, Mount Assiniboine in summer. 13 items
* Skiing: empty
* Winter, Louise: summer and winter views of Lake Louise and area. 6 items
* Cuisine: displays of food at Chateau Frontenac, 5 items
Broad range of views used in Morant slide shows. Includes advertising photographs, photographs of Nick Morant at work and of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
File consists of eleven titled sections: * Advertising: advertising photographs and items and copies of published items. Includes view of Emera…
Broad range of views used in Morant slide shows. Includes advertising photographs, photographs of Nick Morant at work and of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
File consists of eleven titled sections:
* Advertising: advertising photographs and items and copies of published items. Includes view of Emerald Lake used on $10 bill; military manufacturing view used on 50 cent stamp; 20 cent stamp featuring harvesting view; view of lobby of Banff Springs Hotel; view of Canadian Pacific Railway train passing Three Sisters mountain. 18 items
* Back-stage: images of Nick Morant at work; also Moraine Lake and Empress Hotel gardens. 5 items
* Scaffolds: Nick Morant photographing at the Banff Springs Hotel golf course and along the Canadian Pacific Railway using scaffolds. 6 items
* Special train: passenger train (locomotive 2856). Also includes one view of a freight train at the Spiral Tunnels. 3 items
* Canadian: passenger train "The Canadian" at locations in near Ottertail and Beaver Canyon, BC, and near the Bow River, Alberta. 5 items
* Cuisine: mainly displays of food. Also includes view of deer. 10 items
* Signs: Ray Bagley gate sign, theatre announcement signs, focus sign, unusual telephone pool, wax museum figure. 6 items
* [Wildlife]: includes bear, deer and moose. Most images were made in the Morant yard in Banff. 6 items
* Peruvian railroad: train, ship and courtyard scene. 5 items
* Livestock: Willie Morant with Peruvian and llama in mountain setting, 1 item
* Steam: steam and diesel locomotives, trains and budd car along the Canadian Pacific Railway. Locations include the Selkirk Mountains, Spiral Tunnels, Castle and Grotto Mountain areas, and at Lethbridge. Also includes mountain-moon view and Morant outdoor Christmas tree. 14 items
File consists of 111 negative photographs, b&w, various sizes. Contents pertain to personal and family events involving numerous members of the Morant family: Nicholas Morant, David Morant, Francis Morant (Sr. and Jr.), Mollie Morant, Ivy 'Willie' Morant, 'Shandy', 'Trixie' and 'Uncle Dick'. Topics…
File consists of 111 negative photographs, b&w, various sizes. Contents pertain to personal and family events involving numerous members of the Morant family: Nicholas Morant, David Morant, Francis Morant (Sr. and Jr.), Mollie Morant, Ivy 'Willie' Morant, 'Shandy', 'Trixie' and 'Uncle Dick'. Topics include the Morant family crest; images of 'Willie' in the kitchen, at the dentist's and working (multiple dates); David Morant as a child; Morant family Christmas in 1946; 'Willie' and Mollie Morant on the family farm; personal travel ('Vacation 1943', Mexico and Peru); etc.
Storage Range
In file box V500 / III / D / 4 / NA - 1 to V500 / III / D / 4 / NA - 111
ca.125 colour transparencies given to John Garden by Nicholas Morant for use in his books "Nicholas Morant's Canada" (pub. 1998) and "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" (pub. 1991). Includes images of trains, portraits, scenes and people from Peru, Canadian scenics and images from Royal York Hotel…
ca.125 colour transparencies given to John Garden by Nicholas Morant for use in his books "Nicholas Morant's Canada" (pub. 1998) and "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" (pub. 1991). Includes images of trains, portraits, scenes and people from Peru, Canadian scenics and images from Royal York Hotel (1964).
Notes
File also contains set of photocopied scans depicting Nicholas Morant's original numbering systems and labels for transparencies
File consists of 2 posters printed (colour) on construction paper, advertising "A Talk Without Words" presentation by Nicholas and Ivy Morant. Posters have mostly identical texts, with variation in bottom text describing the location/date/time of presentation (one says "Ballroom Wednesday 8:30 P.M.…
"A Talk Without Words" was a sideshow presentation with musical accompaniment featuring Nicholas and Ivy Morant's professional and travel photography. The presentations were put on around the 1960's, and continued for about 15 years.
Scope & Content
File consists of 2 posters printed (colour) on construction paper, advertising "A Talk Without Words" presentation by Nicholas and Ivy Morant. Posters have mostly identical texts, with variation in bottom text describing the location/date/time of presentation (one says "Ballroom Wednesday 8:30 P.M.", two say "The Ballroom Sunday 9:00 P.M").
Notes
2 copies originally came from set of 52 and were selected for processing. The other 50 copies are currently in oversize storage with other non-annotated items from Nicholas Morant accession #7784 (upstairs vault).
Storage Range
In file box M300 / II / C / 6 / 1 to M300 / II / C / 6 / 8
& M300 / II / C / 6 / 70 to 72
File consists of 166 negative photographs (b&w and colour) and 54 colour transparencies taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
220 Photographs: negatives and transparencies; b&w and colour
Scope & Content
File consists of 166 negative photographs (b&w and colour) and 54 colour transparencies taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
Notes
Contains some duplicate photographs. Negatives and transparencies are stored in separate file boxes.
See also V500 / I / A7 / 28
File consists of 66 negative photographs (b&w) taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
File consists of 66 negative photographs (b&w) taken during Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant's personal travels. Content pertains to unidentified people in Mexico and Peru, architecture and ruins, assorted travel scenes.
Notes
Contains duplicates.
Related to V500 / I / A7 / 27
File consists of 30 sound recording items (26 audio tapes, 4 audio film reels, various sizes). Content pertains to original recordings made by Nick Morant, various dates (see "Content Details" for list of individual recording contents). Recordings all individually labelled by Nicholas Morant. Recor…
File consists of 30 sound recording items (26 audio tapes, 4 audio film reels, various sizes). Content pertains to original recordings made by Nick Morant, various dates (see "Content Details" for list of individual recording contents). Recordings all individually labelled by Nicholas Morant. Recordings consist of broadcasts, concert music, comedy skits, etc., ranging in dates from the 1930's to 1980's.
Series 14 – Goon Squad (S20/III/D1/34)
Series 6 – 2 Sides (S20/III/D1/35a & 35b)
I: Peru – Old Timers – I Can Hear It
II: Concert Music
Series 5 – Broadcast Pickups (S20/III/D1/36)
Series II – Mexican Waltes ((S20/III/D1/37)
Palm Court Concert (S20/III/D1/38)
Series III – Million Strings Swiss Recordings (S20/III/D1/39)
“The Continentals” Halifax CBC Pick-up 13 (S20/III/D1/40)
Series XII Broadcast Pickups (S20/III/D1/41)
Assortment – Broadcast Music 1965 1985 (S20/III/D1/42)
Broadcast Music 1967 (S20/III/D1/43)
Series 4 – McDowell’s Music etc. (S20/III/D1/44)
Series VIII – “Leicester Square” (S20/III/D1/45)
Series I (S20/III/D1/46)
1. Harpo Marx 2. Parisian Touch
Series 15 – Moran Mack – Oldtime Records (S20/III/D1/47)
Series VII – Strings Music – Dancing Zither – South American Mood I (S20/III/D1/48)
South American Harp Flute Indienne & Asst. (S20/III/D1/49)
Goon Shows (S20/III/D1/50)
“No No Nanette” (S20/III/D1/51)
Broadcast Pickups ’65 – ’85 (S20/III/D1/52)
Series 10 – Souvenir of Vienna – Welcome (Zither) (S20/III/D1/53)
Series II – Concert Music from 1930’s (S20/III/D1/54)
Quentin Maclean ORGAN (S20/III/D1/55)
Series 9 – Concert Music (S20/III/D1/56)
‘78” Series – Flute Duet, Burgess Meredith, Benny Show, 1949 (S20/III/D1/57)
Concert Music – Ivor Novello, Piano Waltes (S20/III/D1/58)
Maggie Teyte – Some 1900 Music (S20/III/D1/59)
“78s” 1930’s Sir Harry Lauder, Jewish Comedian (1920’s), Ketelby Records, Maggie Teyte (S20/III/D1/60)
[Untitled] 78 reel (S20/III/D1/61)
Peru – Mountains (S20/III/D1/62)
Seranata – “Song of the Nightingale” (S20/III/D1/63)
File consists of 4 audiotape film reels with music content recorded by Nicholas Morant. Pertains to music/audio used in slideshow presentation series "A Talk Without Words" by Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant (see "History/Bio"). Items (in order) are labelled "Introduction", "Showtape", "Introducti…
"A Talk Without Words" was an original presentation by Nick and Ivy "Willie" Morant featuring some of their photographs taken while travelling across Canada for work, as well as photographs from their travels in Peru. The presentation involved a brief introduction by Nick and Willie, followed by an approximately one-hour long slideshow accompanied by music which was recorded by Nick. The couple presented this slideshow, and similar variations, to the public for about 15 years (ca. 1950 to ca. 1965).
Scope & Content
File consists of 4 audiotape film reels with music content recorded by Nicholas Morant. Pertains to music/audio used in slideshow presentation series "A Talk Without Words" by Nicholas and Ivy "Willie" Morant (see "History/Bio"). Items (in order) are labelled "Introduction", "Showtape", "Introduction B" and "Showtape B".
Notes
Item S20/II/C/7/1 originally stored in brown paper Canadian Pacific mailing envelope with shipping label: "INTRODUCTION NICHOLAS MORANT BOX 1288 BANFF, ALBERTA CANADA"
Items S20/II/C/7/2 to 4 were attached by string tied around them.
Item S20/II/C/7/2 has label taped to inside of clear plastic container reading: "SHOWTAPE. Nova Scotia 123 Trees Prairies Quiet Places World at Feet Mountains 123 Exit Music."
Item S20/II/C/7/3 and S20/II/C/7/4 were in brown paper Canadian Pacific envelope labelled: "SHOWTAPE B INTRODUCTION B Excludes - Peru - Soundpix"
S20/II/C/7/3 in "Scotch Tape" brand box labelled "Introduction B .... Okay for Revere or Magnecord."
S20/II/C/7/4 in "audiotape" brand box labelled "Showtape B. Okay for Revere and Magnecord."
https://www.whyte.org/nicholas-morant-later-career
Also referenced in book "Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific" by John F. Garden (Revelstoke: Footprint Publishing, 1991) under chapter "A Talk Without Words"
The Nicholas Morant fonds consists of Morant's freelance work from his early days with the Winnipeg Free Press to his retirement from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1981. It is national in scope and also includes some international material. The fonds is comprised of three series: I. Photograp…
Nicholas Everard Morant, 1910-1999, was a professional photographer based at Banff, Alberta, Canada. He was a Canadian commercial photographer of international repute and Canada's premier railway photographer of the 20th century.
Morant was born at Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of Francis and Mollie Morant. After attending the University School at Victoria, Morant served as Special Photographer to the CPR from 1929 to 1935 and again from 1944 to 1981. From 1935 to 1939, he was a cameraman for the Winnipeg Free Press, and from 1940 to 1944 worked with the Wartime Information Branch of the federal government (later to be known as the National Film Board Stills Division).
Morant had a prolific career as a freelance commercial, portrait, magazine, landscape and documentary photographer. His work appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Time, Life, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post, (Toronto) Star Weekly, Northern Sportsman, Reader's Digest, Country Guide, The Standard, National Home Monthly, Canadian Photography, Outdoor Canada, National Geographic, the Globe & Mail, Winnipeg Tribune, New York Daily News, and the two Canadian Pacific Railway magazines, The Spanner and Rail News.
Two wartime images were featured on postage stamps, while three landscape views appeared on Canadian $10, $50 and $100 bills. His images were also used for corporate annual reports, postcards, brochures, calendars and advertisements. From the 1950s to 1980s Morant gave public slide shows of his work, two of the most popular being "A Talk Without Words" and "The World At Your Feet".
Morant married Ivy May "Willie" Young in 1936 when he was a photographer with the Winnipeg Free Press. Beginning in 1929, and until the end of her life, Morant's travelling and working companion was his wife, "Willie," 1910-1986.
Scope & Content
The Nicholas Morant fonds consists of Morant's freelance work from his early days with the Winnipeg Free Press to his retirement from the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1981. It is national in scope and also includes some international material. The fonds is comprised of three series: I. Photography; II. Professional records; III. Personal and family records.
I. Photography series consists of: A. Negatives and transparencies, B. Transparencies, C. Prints, D. Other photographs. II. Professional records series consists of: A. Working records, B. Career records, C. Topical files. III. Personal and family records series consists of: A. Nick and Willie Morant, B. Nick Morant funeral and memorial, C. Francis and Mollie Morant, D. Collected material
Notes
Full summary of sub-sub-series levels:
I / A : 1) Darkroom Files [ a) Negative Albums b) Black/White Series I and II c) Colour Series I and II
d) Leica Negs ]
2) GD Files
I / B : 1) Presentations [ a) Topical Files b) Thematic Files ]
2) General Files
3) Other
I / C : 1) Print Files
I / D : 1) Exhibition and Display Prints
2) Photographs used by John Garden
3) Other Photographs
II / A : 1) Log Books
2) Notebooks
II / B : 1) Career Binders [ a) Postcards b) Brochures and Advertising c) clippings and articles
d) Calendar Photographs ]
2) Scrapbooks [ a) Content 1933 - 1946 b) Content 1940 - 1980 ]
II / C : 1) Numbered / Titled Files [ a) Group A b) Group B c) Group C d) Group D e) Group H
f) Group P g) Group R ]
2) Other Topical Files [ a) Railway; i) Timetables ii) Publications iii) Other
b) Photography; i) Textual Records ii) Print Material
c) Travel d) Exhibitions and Galleries e)Personal f) Other ]
3) Postcards, Greeting Cards and Ephemera Collection
4) Published Images and Text
5) Professional Photography
6) Promotional Items, Awards and Correspondence
7) Presentation and Interview Materials
III / A : 1) Correspondence
2) Personal Papers [ a) Personal Records b) Notes and Notebooks c) Lists and Card Files
d) Awards and Retirement ]
3) Personal Photographs
4) House Records [ a) Construction b) Household Records ]
5) Business, Financial and Legal Papers
6) Interviews, Reminiscences Personal Recordings
7) Other Records (Signs, Cartoons, Drawings, etc.)
8) Personal Correspondence and Notes
9) Travel Documents and Maps
III / B : 1) Nick Morant Funeral, Memorial and Estate
III / C : 1) Mollie Morant Papers
2) Other Family Papers
III / D : 1) Sound Recordings
2) Biographical Material
3) Other Papers and Photographs [ a) Burton Wheatley Family b) Other ]
4) Personal and Family Photography
5) Personal Interest and Gifts